Picturing the Page

Illustrated Children's Literature and Reading Under Lenin and Stalin

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page offers a vivid exploration of illustrated children’s literature and reading under Lenin and Stalin – a period when mass publishing for children and universal public education became available for the first time in Russia. By analysing the illustrations in fairy tales, classic "adult" literature reformatted for children, and war-time picture books, Megan Swift elucidates the vital and multifaceted function of illustrated children’s literature in repurposing the past.Picturing the Page demonstrates that while the texts of the past remained fixed, illustrations could slip between the pages to mediate and annotate that past, as well as connect with anti-religious, patriotic, and other campaigns that were central to Soviet children’s culture after the 1917 Revolution.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-05-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781442615311
Utmärkelser:Winner of 2021 Book Award from the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) 2021 (Canada)

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Barn- och ungdomslitteratur inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Megan Swift is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.

Recensioner i media

“Megan Swift’s Picturing the Page is a welcome new addition to the research of illustrated children’s books and children’s reading. Picturing the Page ambitiously seeks to reconstruct the relationship between illustrated children’s books and children’s reading in the context of the Soviet literature curriculum and reading culture.”

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Picturing a New ChildhoodPart I: Fairy-Tale Nation1. The Poet, the Priest, and the Peasant2. Up, Up, and Away on the Little Humpbacked HorsePart II: The Afterlife of Russian Classics3. The Bronze Horseman Rides Again4. Anna Karenina and the Mother-and-Child ReunionPart III: War-Time Picture Books 5. Mayakovsky Is Marching with Us 6. Pochta: Circulation, Delivery, ReturnConclusion: Yesterday and TodayNotes BibliographyIndex Colour Plates